Gorizont 3

 1979-105A

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The third Gorizont satellite to be launched, in Dec 1979, was positioned at the Statsionar 5 location, 53E.

Gorizont No. 13
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Dec 28	1151:00	Launch by Proton	KB
	1200	Stage 3 sep
	1308?	DM burn 1
	1824?	DM burn 2
	1828?	Blok-DM No. 24L sep
			1463.00 36290 x 36332 x 0.8 GEO 91.8E+6.6W
1980 Jan 16		mv in	1436.22 35740 x 35837 x 0.8 GEO 53.1E
1981 Feb 3			1436.00 35740 x 35829 x 0.1 GEO 53.0E
1981 Apr		Statsionar 5	GEO 54E+0.05
1982 Jan 3			1435.93 35729 x 35837 x 0.8 GEO 53.0E
1983 Mar 8			1436.20 35782 x 35795 x 1.8 GEO 53.1E
1983 Apr 17			1436.01 35741 x 35828 x 1.9 GEO 52.8E
1984 Jan			GEO dr
1984 May			GEO dr
1984 Jul		On station	GEO 40E
1984 Aug 5			1436.02 35758 x 35811 x 3.0 GEO 39.9E
1985 Aug 2			1436.21 35782 x 35795 x 3.9 GEO 40.0E
1986 Jan 7			1436.06 35784 x 35787 x 4.4 GEO 39.3E
1987 Feb 7			1436.01 35780 x 35789 x 5.4 GEO 39.7E
1988 Jan 8			1436.27 35788 x 35791 x 6.2 GEO 40.0E
1989 Jan 2			1436.15 35786 x 35789 x 7.1 GEO 39.7E
1989 Oct			1435.90 35767 x 35798 x 7.8 GEO 40.2E+0.04E
1989 Oct 8		last mv	1436.29 35780 x 35800 x 7.8 GEO 40.2E+0.06W
1989 Dec 17			1435.81 35764 x 35797 x 8.0 GEO 40.8E+0.07E
1989 Dec 28		Decommissioned
1990 Jan 1			1435.71 35762 x 35795 x 8.0 GEO 42.1E+0.1E
1992 Jun 26			1435.27 35734 x 35806 x 10.1 GEO 52.5E+0.2E

Landsat 3

 1978-026A

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Landsat 3 reached a 900 x 918 km x 99.1 deg orbit on 1978 Mar 5. Landsat 3 was transferred to NOAA in 1983 Feb and turned off on Sep 7.

Landsat 3
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1978 Mar 5	1754	Launch by Delta 2910	V SLC2W
		T+0:38 SRM 1-6 out
		T+0:39 SRM 7-9 on
		T+1:17 SRM 1-9 sep
		T+3:47 MECO
		T+3:54 St 1 sep
		T+3:59 SES-2
	1758	T+4:33 Fairing
	1805	T+8:55 SECO-1 189 km vrel 7.993
	1849		T+55:32 SES-2 912 km vrel 7.201
	1849	T+55:44 SECO-2
	1908:27	T+1:14:27 Landsat sep
	1908:47	Delta PIX ops begin
	1918	T+1:24:42 SES-3 4s 7.3906 7m/s
	1918	T+1:24:46 SECO-3 7.3838 930 km
	1919	T+1:25:21 Oscar sep from Delta
1978 Mar 5	Landsat orbit	103.15 898 x 917 x 99.1
	Oscar orbit	902 x 914 km x 99.0
	Delta orbit	903 x 914 km x 99.1
1978 Mar 6			103.17 900 x 916 x 99.1
1978 Mar 22			103.18 904 x 913 x 99.1
1978 Sep 10			103.21 900 x 920 x 99.1
1983 Feb		To NOAA
1995 May 12			103.12 894 x 917 x 99.2